Roella secunda H.Buek

Prostrate, sprawling or occasionally erect shrublets with many short, often secund branches. Stems hairy, up to 50 cm. long, the branches 5-8 cm. Leaves glabrous or shortly hairy, crowded, more or less squarrose, flat, 3-7 mm. long, ciliate, occasionally toothed, with axillary fascicles. Flower heads terminal, compact, as broad as long, usually 3-flowered, less often 1, 2, or 5, the heads sometimes grouped. Bracts covered with short hairs or rarely glabrous, the outer ovate-acuminate, the inner truncate and 5-7-toothed at the top, the central tooth as long as or longer than the others. Teeth on the bracts squarrose or recurved in the later stages. Calyx lobes 3-5 mm. long, longer than the bracts, lanceolate, acute, the tips bent outwards. Corolla white, tubular, 4-8 mm. long, the lobes about as long as the tube. Style hairy, as long as the corolla, stigma lobes truncate. Disc concave, yellow. Ovary very shortly hairy.